Some reasonable (i hope) thoughts about the failures of this Marathon:

1. it gives a very poor image about the company, when you launch, for your 7th year anniversary,

an event with manifest errors in it, without the minimum check of the text. As you guessed I'm referring notably to the "missing garage" issue and, notably, the different amount of reserves obtained by playing or by paying the tank, which lead to a temporary withdrawal of the offer from the site.

Without making a fuss about it, it is, objecively, a poor job from WG team. For such errors,

in other companies people would get fired.

2. More important, there is clearly a poorly designed event, as a marathon at least. Why ? Because in a marathon you can have like 5-10-15% runnes who quit. Let's be generous and say 30%. But you would still have 70% runners finishing it.

Or, by the poor design, it is very likely that not even 30% of the players base will manage to have the tank only by playing.

I became even more aware of this issue looking at quickybaby's Edited calculations and after seeing Papapawian playing tier 7 instead of tier X to get it.

I mean:

-if 70% of players are not capable of doing it entirely

-if even Papapawian is not taking the " tier 10 skillesd route" it's clear that the event is badly designed.

3. The agressivenes towards the player, in therms of XP resseting. This is probably the lowest blow in this event. Not allowing base XP to stack from one mission to another is just useless aggression towards the players. You could have increased the overall amount required and let it stack, players would not have had felt so agressed / insulted. Totally useless and brainless move here WG.

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LOL, WUT?!?

So you think that a campaign is awful because of

a. few typos, that were corrected within hour(s)

b. the campaign, which is NOT a marathon, does not fulfill the analogy with the actual marathon for runners

c. there is a clearly set target which is based on overall effort that is written in a form that somehow offends you

I mean this must be the new low!

Congratulations WG, you biggest shortcomings are apparently in the way you write down amazing campaigns!

If you get to 90% then you got all the bonuses. You will only get the tank, no more freebies on the side.

This is correct (you can see your current "offer" in Premium shop) and it is the one thing that really bugs me here. There is clear misinformation in the campaign marketing.

If the discount of x% applies to the bundle, it should include the whole bundle. If you get a bundle worth less than originally, you can't really say that the x% applies to the original bundle. I mean after Stage 9, the bundle has lost all of the "bundle" value and is only the tank. So 90% discount from a ~40€ tank is worth much less than 90% of 58,41€ bundle.

I'm pretty sure this is illegal and WG should probably re-formulate the terms asap before they get into trouble.

fredo_k, on 14 April 2018 - 03:15 PM, said:

Proof, where have you seen this?

Go to Premium shop and check the content of your Progetto offer. If you have cleared stage one, you can see that the Stage 1 rewards have been removed from the offer. Funnily the non-discounted price hasn't changed.

This is curious also from another perspective. During Christmas calendar event WG sold bundles with 15% discount. However, these bundles had the same price as the tank would normally have, but the discount came from free reserves etc that was added to the bundle. This means that WG does consider that the bundled reserves have monetary value.

Now as they have already proved that those reserves are worth money, they shouldn't be able to say that this Progetto bundle doesn't lose value when they take the reserves out of it.

This is correct (you can see your current "offer" in Premium shop) and it is the one thing that really bugs me here. There is clear misinformation in the campaign marketing.

If the discount of x% applies to the bundle, it should include the whole bundle. If you get a bundle worth less than originally, you can't really say that the x% applies to the original bundle. I mean after Stage 9, the bundle has lost all of the "bundle" value and is only the tank. So 90% discount from a ~40€ tank is worth much less than 90% of 58,41€ bundle.

I'm pretty sure this is illegal and WG should probably re-formulate the terms asap before they get into trouble.

Aha.... I looked again and as you say, there is a bundle. I thought we only played for the tank. Nothing else. And that the bundle stuff was only stage rewards? This setup may not be nearly as sweet as I thought it to be...

You can earn the bonuses only once, either by completing the missions or purchasing the package in the premium shop. If you completed all the missions up to 90% you already earned all the rewards, purchasing the package at 10% will get you the Progetto and a garage slot

The offer is back and the issues should be fixed. Please let us know if you spot anything else!

Ph3lan, I have a problem with not being able to access the Italian Challenge UI in garage: I get a message "Attention! Information is temporarily unavailable", which was even from before the start of the challenge (checked the challenge right on 3 days ago as soon as it was announced in garage), so I've been unable to enter at any time whatsoever.

When I go into WG shop Progetto page shows I do have a 10% discount activated, as I played some games yesterday, but i.e. I can't see my progress on 2nd stage. The same goes for ingame screen, it shows 1/10 stages completed, no progress on 2nd stage. This will become a problem for me in later stages for sure... Especially as I can't see the total done for tier X battles

Any solution? I see some other players have the same issue, but no answer.

BTW vanilla WoT, fresh install after 1.0 came out (even on another SSD HDD), no mods whatsoever, Windows 7 pro, Firefox updated, ESET firewall (maybe therein lies the problem, but WoT games folder is excluded from check...). I don't know what to do.

Some reasonable (i hope) thoughts about the failures of this Marathon:

1. it gives a very poor image about the company, when you launch, for your 7th year anniversary,

an event with manifest errors in it, without the minimum check of the text. As you guessed I'm referring notably to the "missing garage" issue and, notably, the different amount of reserves obtained by playing or by paying the tank, which lead to a temporary withdrawal of the offer from the site.

Without making a fuss about it, it is, objecively, a poor job from WG team. For such errors,

in other companies people would get fired.

2. More important, there is clearly a poorly designed event, as a marathon at least. Why ? Because in a marathon you can have like 5-10-15% runnes who quit. Let's be generous and say 30%. But you would still have 70% runners finishing it.

Or, by the poor design, it is very likely that not even 30% of the players base will manage to have the tank only by playing.

I became even more aware of this issue looking at quickybaby's Edited calculations and after seeing Papapawian playing tier 7 instead of tier X to get it.

I mean:

-if 70% of players are not capable of doing it entirely

-if even Papapawian is not taking the " tier 10 skillesd route" it's clear that the event is badly designed.

3. The agressivenes towards the player, in therms of XP resseting. This is probably the lowest blow in this event. Not allowing base XP to stack from one mission to another is just useless aggression towards the players. You could have increased the overall amount required and let it stack, players would not have had felt so agressed / insulted. Totally useless and brainless move here WG.

This post has been edited by the moderation team due to swearing.

lol, I was planing on doing the marathon and after I was about to finish stage 2 I had like 6,8k XP and I had a match with 1,1k xp, of course it reset and I lost 900 base xp. That just plain stupid. I gave up after that. I would rather go play something else less Edited .

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I keep seeing this nonsense being said that the tank is "for free", what free people, wake up ! You pay it (dearly, if I may say) with your time, which time is THE most precious commodity ! Isn't that clear for everyone ? I would rather (and I will) pay for it with my money than wasting precious moments.